Hypnosis and Sleep: How to Deliver Hypnotic Suggestions That Support Healthy Sleep (CTSCH)
April 25
Organization: CTSCH
Website: https://www.ctsch.com/
Agenda: https://asch.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Timed_Agenda.docx
Event Title: Hypnosis and Sleep: How to Deliver Hypnotic Suggestions That Support Healthy Sleep
Dates: 4/25/2025
Location: Virtual
CE: 2.0
Contact: CTSCH@CTSCH.com
Abstract:
Half of all adults experience regular sleep disturbances, with significant portions of the population suffering from chronic insomnia, according to Rand’s 2023 Global Report. Hypnosis can be very helpful with inducing relaxation, releasing anxiety, and controlling the spinning thoughts that often accompany insomnia. However, unless we, as practitioners, understand sleep architecture and the specific components of sleep, we cannot design and deliver the unique suggestions that most effectively target sleep and wake cycles. To fully address sleep disturbance, we must shift our perception of insomnia, cognitive fog, and fatigue as true issues with sleep per se. Instead, these symptoms should be thought of as challenges to the transitions between states of wakefulness and sleeping. Because hypnosis is a bridge between the conscious (awake) and unconscious (sleeping) minds, it can be an extraordinary tool for impacting those transitional challenges, between states of being awake and being asleep, in a safe and profound way. In this workshop, we will discuss the foundations of sleep in the body and brain, explore some of the architecture of sleep and hypnosis, and learn how to address sleep/wake issues using hypnotic metaphors, language, and specific suggestions.
Learning Objectives:
1. Be able to identify at least 3 specific aspects of sleep problems or architecture that can be effectively addressed using hypnotic suggestions.
2. Be able to construct at least 3 metaphors or embedded suggestions that address common sleep problems pertaining to sleep architecture.
3. Be able to deliver at least 3 hypnotic suggestions that specifically relate to sleep.
4. Be able to formulate and practice at least 2 different hypnotic inductions that target healing sleep and fatigue problems.